Chaucer at Large : The Poet in the Modern Imagination

In This Learned, Lively, And Wide-ranging Book, Steve Ellis Conducts Us On A Tour Of The Appearances That The Greatest Writer Of Middle English Has Made Throughout English-speaking Culture In The Late Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries. Surveying The Uses To Which Chaucer Has Been Put In Modern Times, Ellis Presents A Compelling Picture That Goes Beyond The Figure And Work Of This Eminent Writer To Show Us The Reach Of His Imaginative Power.oc An Attractively Lucid Book, Highly Intelligent, Perceptive, Wide-ranging, But Also Modestly Written. The Story Ellis Has To Tell Is Often Quite Extraordinary, And It Has Not Been Told Before.oco-derek Pearsall, Gurney Professor Of English, Emeritus, Harvard University